Vera Klute ARHA (born 1981) is a German multi-disciplinary artist based in

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, Ireland.

Life

Vera Klute was born in 1981 in

Salzkotten Salzkotten is a town in the district of Paderborn, in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The name Salzkotten (in English, "Salt cottages") is based in the former salt production, which gave Salzkotten its raison d'être. Salt was found in the salty ...

, Germany. Klute moved to Ireland to attend

Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology ( ga, Institiúid Ealaíona, Dearadh agus Teicneolaíochta Dhún Laoghaire), more commonly known as IADT Dún Laoghaire or simply IADT is an institute of technology with a focus on art and ...

, graduating in 2006. She works in a variety of media, from portraiture to sculpture. Klute has had a number of solo exhibitions: Wexford Arts Centre (2009),

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(2011), QSS Gallery (2014), the LAB and

Royal Hibernian Academy The Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) is an artist-based and artist-oriented institution in Ireland, founded in Dublin in 1823. Like many other Irish institutions, such as the RIA, the academy retained the word "Royal" after most of Ireland became in ...

(RHA) Ashford (2014), and The Molesworth Gallery (2016). She had her first major solo show at the RHA in 2017. Klute's portrait of Sr

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was added to the National Portrait Collection in the

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(NGI) in 2014. A self-portrait of Klute was selected for inclusion in the National Self-portrait Collection of Ireland, and she won the Hennessy Portrait Prize at the NGI in 2015. She won the Hennessy Craig Scholarship in 2015 from the RHA. Klute has been the recipient of the Arts Council Bursary Awards in 2008, 2009, 2011 and 2013. She has also been awarded the Emerging Visual Artist Award from the Wexford Arts Centre in 2009 and the K+M Evans Award from the RHA Annual in 2013. Klute was commissioned by the Royal Irish Academy in 2017 to create a set of four portraits for their ''Women on Walls'' initiative. The portraits were of Françoise Henry, Sheila Tinney, Phyllis Clinch and

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. In 2018, she was elected an Associate Member of the RHA. In January 2019, Klute's

sculpture Sculpture is the branch of the visual arts that operates in three dimensions. Sculpture is the three-dimensional art work which is physically presented in the dimensions of height, width and depth. It is one of the plastic arts. Durable ...

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was unveiled on Sheriff Street, Dublin having won the commission for work under a competition established the then Lord Mayor of Dublin, Christy Burke.

References

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